Word: phrased
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although most serious debate has centered on the destruction of open green space, and on city and highway planning, opponents have used a catch phrase--"SAVE THE SYCAMORES"--to gain support...
...With all deliberate speed" was the well-calculated phrase that the Supreme Court used in 1955 to describe how U.S. public schools should be desegregated. Last week the court decided-in the words of Associate Justice Hugo L. Black-that "there has been entirely too much deliberation and not enough speed." In separate unanimous decisions, it gave federal district courts considerable powers to reverse one flagrant defiance of the law in Virginia's Prince Edward County and to challenge a typically tortoise-paced Southern effort at obeying in Atlanta...
...phrase "approved by the General Education Committee," we do not mean by this to commit the Committee to the examination of the contents and conduct of every course in the catalogue and to the selection of a few specimens for its list. We intend only to give the Committee the power to exclude courses that are clearly inappropriate for General Education...
Rocky was striking pay dirt, knew it and mined it assiduously. It was at the Raleigh Hills shopping center in Beaverton, as beaming young matrons pushed their perambulators over to listen, that Rocky lumped it all into a catch phrase that stuck, labeled his campaign and marked it for victory. Said he: "I guess I'm the Lone Ranger, the only one left in this campaign...
...vibrant, reedy, and flexible. He liberally scorns the rank and file of American oboists who seem ashamed to play on double reeds, using, in their overweening desire for a heavy rich tone, thick reeds which hamper the development of virtuoso technique, and limit the player's freedom to phrase and vary his tone color. Obviously, Marx has no concern for playing with music, or for producting a smooth fat sound that he can drag along from note to note...